Records and papers concerning England and Portugal, 1373–1604
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Collection of records and papers concerning England and Portugal, dating from between 1373 and 1604. Including letters by Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine; King João I of Portugal (1385–1433); King João III of Portugal (1521–1577); and William Cecil, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
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Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Correspondence and other records (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain, May 1471–June 1588, including letters of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547), Charles V, king of Spain (1516–1556) and Holy Roman emperor (1519–1556; d. 1558), King Philip II of Spain (1556–1598) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), and incorporating Considerations necessaires sur un Traicté de Paix avec l’Espagnol, 1587 (ff. 3–14: printed text)
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Language(s): primarily Latin, English and Spanish, partly in cipher, with occasional items in French, Portuguese and Italian Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 487. 1. A printed tract, entitled, "Considerations necessaires sur un traicté de paix avec l'Espagnol." 1587. 3.2. Edward IV;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Correspondence and other documents written or attested by various monarchs
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Correspondence and other documents written or attested by the kings, queens and rulers of England, France, Scotland, Castile, Aragon, Spain, Portugal, Florence, Tuscany, the Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Russia, including William I of England (1066–1087) and his succes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 17th century